Intermediate
397 self-paced lessons: Konjunktiv II and wenn-clauses, the Plusquamperfekt, relative and infinitive clauses, the passive, verbs with prepositions, the genitive, spoken German and real situations at the bank, the office and home.
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The Past Tenses Together, Part 1 of 2
Tell what happened in the Perfekt and say what it was like with "war", "hatte" and the modals, side by side as Germans do in speech.
Pattern Practice: Haben or Sein?
Choose the Perfekt auxiliary without thinking: "sein" for movement and change, "haben" for everything else, and the traps in between.
Circuit: Strong Participles
Produce the most frequent strong and mixed participles without thinking, learned in families by vowel pattern.
Talk About You: Warst du schon mal...?
Ask and answer about life experiences with "schon mal", "noch nie" and "noch nicht".
Minimal Pairs: Er hat / Er hatte, Er ist / Er war
Hear and say the tiny contrasts that carry tense in fast speech: "hat" / "hatte", "ist" / "war", "kann" / "konnte", "müssen" / "mussten".
The Past Tenses Together, Part 2 of 2
Use the strong and mixed verbs people really do say in the Präteritum: "es gab", "ich kam", "ich ging", "ich stand", "ich wusste", "ich dachte".
Dialogue Lab: Wie war dein Wochenende?
Monday morning at work: ask about the weekend, tell what happened, react, and link your story with "zuerst", "dann", "danach".
Seit, Vor, Schon and Erst
Say how long something has been going on, how long ago it happened, and whether that's more or less than expected.
Contrast Clinic: Seit, Vor or Für?
Translate English 'for' correctly: "seit" for what's still going on, "lang" for a finished stretch, "für" for a planned period, and "vor" for 'ago'.
Error Hunt: Past-Tense Slips
Find and fix the past-tense mistakes English speakers make most: wrong auxiliary, participle in the wrong place, "für" for "seit" and broken verb-second.
Fix the Paragraph: Eine Urlaubsmail
Correct a holiday email sentence by sentence: wrong auxiliaries, invented participles and broken verb-second.
Quick Round: Schon / Noch nicht / Noch nie
Give rapid answers with "ja, schon", "noch nicht" and "noch nie", and use "doch" to contradict a negative question.
Fill the Story: Was für ein Tag!
Retell a disastrous day by filling gaps: choose "haben" or "sein", "war" or "hatte", use "es gab", and keep the verb second after every time marker.
Transformation Chain: From Present to Past
Retell a present-tense story in the past step by step: choose the auxiliary, move the participle, and keep "sein", "haben" and the modals in the Präteritum.
Unit 1 review: The Past Tenses Together
Practise what you learned in this unit (The Past Tenses Together): understand and write down what you hear, speak and write with it, then take a short unit quiz.
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